Brosimum melanopotamicum C.C.Berg
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Authority
Berg, Cornelius C. 1972. Olmedieae, Brosimeae (Moraceae). Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 7: 1-229. (Published by NYBG Press)
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Family
Moraceae
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Scientific Name
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Type
Type. Pires 247, Brazil, Amazonas, Santa Isabel (on Rio Negro) (US).
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Description
Description - Dioecious trees; latex white. Leafy twigs 2-3.5 mm thick, with (very) short, partly uncinate, yellowish hairs, intermixed with distinctly longer, appressed to patent, yellowish hairs. Leaves elliptic to oblong, more or less inequilateral, sometimes broadest above the middle, 5-20 cm long, 2.5-10 cm broad, subcoriaceous to coriaceous, acuminate, at the base acute to obtuse; margin entire; above glabrous; beneath puberulous to hirtellous, on the costa and secondary veins also long, more or less appressed, hairs and on the smaller veins often also small uncinate hairs; venation coarse, veins impressed to plane above, prominent beneath, 8-15 pairs of secondary veins, arching far from the margin; petioles 3-11 m long; stipules 3-7 mm long, with short patent and longer more or less appressed hairs. Staminate inflorescences globose to ellipsoid, 7-10 mm in diameter; peduncle 2-7 mm long; flowers numerous; perianth o.3-0.5 mm high, with 2-4(-5?) irregularly shaped tepals; stamens 1-4, often 2; filaments ca 1 mm long, anthers o.3-0.4 mm long and broad, connectives broad and more or less swollen; bracts numerous, o. 1-1 mm in diameter, puberulous.
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Distribution
(Fig 72). Brazil, Amazonas, along Rio Negro to Manaus; in forests of the terra firme.
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